Secondary or storage battery.



B. FORD. SECONDARY OR STORAGE BATTERY. APPLICATION FILED FEB. II, |915.

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BRUCE FORD, F PHILAEELPHA, '.PElNSYLVALt..

SECONDARY OR STORGE BATTERY.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Fatented June t9, i291?.

Application filed February 11, 1915. lSerial No, 7,4%.

Togli' whom t may concern: l .f itfirnown that l, BRUCE Fono, a citizen dif/the United States, residing at Philadel "phia, in the county of Philadelphia and teries to the end that they will coperate` in an improved manner and form an efiicient and comparatively inexpensive storage battei-y construction.

The invention will be claimed at the end hereof but will be first described in connection with the embodiment of it chosen for -illustration in the accompanying drawings which show a transverse sectional view of a storage battery embodying features of the invention.

In the drawings the inside wall l, and the outside wall 2, of the jar 3, are flat and straight. 4, is a cover dished as at 5, and having a marginal flange 6, of which the rim 7, contacts with the inside wall l, of the jar below the top thereof. 8, is an outerbox having inner side walls 9, arranged to contact with the outside walls of the jar to suplport the latter and keep them up to the rim 7, of the cover flange 6. lt may be remarked l* that the jar is usually of rubber material orlome other material which is more flexible anl less rigid than the box 8 which may be constructed of wood or like material. 10, is a'plate structure which supports the cover e, and holds it against undesirable move'- rnent either upward or downward and 1n proper relation with respect to the top of the jar. As shown the cover is held upon the plate structure l0, by a locking nut la, and by means of a gasket 12, as of rubber, supported by an appropriate flange 13. 1l, is a seal or sealing compoundinterposed between the `jar walls and the ange and cover. The fact that the jar and box walls are flat and straight simplifies and cheapens their construction While at the same time the arrangement and mutual inter-relation and cooperation of the parts provides an efficient and comparatively inexpensive closure.

Nhat I claim is:

l. inav storage battery the combination of' y a jar, an inverted dished coverl having a marginal flange of which the rim contacts with the inside Wall of the jar below the top thereof, an outer boX having inner side walls arranged to contact with the outside walls of the jar to support the latter and keep them upto the rim of the cover flange, and a plate structure secured to the cover to positively position it in respect to the top of the jar, substantially as described.

2. ln a storage battery the combination of a j ar having flat and straight inside and outside walls, a dished cover having amarginal flange of which the rim contacts with the fiat inside wall of the jar below the top thereof, an outer box having fiat faced inner side walls arranged to contact with the fiat outside walls of the jar to support the latter and keep them up to the rim of the cover fiange, a plate structure, means engaging the plate structure and cover to hold the latter down, and means engaging the plate structure and cover'to hold the latter up.

3. In a storage battery the combination of a ar having flat and straight inside and 4outside walls, a dished cover having a marginal flange of which the rim contacts with the Hat inside wall of the jar below the Atop thereof, an outer boxhaving flat faced inner side walls arrangedl to contact with the fiat outside walls of the Aj ar tosupport the latter and keep them up to the rim of the cover flange, a plate structure secured to the cover to positively position `it in respect to the top of the jar, and a sealing compound interposed between the jar walls and flange an cover, substantially as described.

4f. ln a storage battery the combination of a jar having flat and straight inside and outside walls, a dished cover having a marginal flange of which the rim contacts with the flat inside wall of the jar below the top thereof, an outer box having flat faced inner side walls arranged tocontaet with theflat outside `.walls of the j ar to support the latter and keep them up to the rim of the cover flange, va plate structure,v means engaging the plate structure and cover to hold the latter down, means engaging the plate structure and cover to hold the latter up, and a sealing compound interposed between the jar walls and flange and cover, substan tially as described. i

5'.' lin a storage battery the combination of ,"jar, an inverted dished cover having a marn ginal flange of which the rim contacts with the inside wall of the jar below the top ther-cof, an outer box having inner side walls ico los

of the *5o suppe 1 them up to the ver {hu- :L plate Sruczuw a 0mm im hul@ 1t 1n respect to he j? n, smi bw tween the plate structure and Covey, und. :L sealing compound interposed between ih@ jar Walls and Hang@ and cover, Substantially as described.

6. In sozfag -attery the combination of uy jar, L dishfad @over having L il'zu'gmfl', flange of which the rim (30min. h eine ufdde wall of the jar below t l un outer box hmvmg uwer sid@ u ranged to umlw; with the ouisde, im

the jaw w Support the latter und ka@ up im -xu rim of the @over mge, u :armmwh n 'flmge on vhe srucule- @im *kat and n,v um, im: cuuncctng and. Sefln" c plate munie and amer, and a Sealing wmpwmf? nxi'pocd between the jm: Walls :md Thang@ and cover? substannlly as fiescribed.

n testnwny whereof' hm'e hereunto Signed my name .in the pl'esence oftwo Witmesses.

HUGE FORD 

